Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , I 've been using a better copy of PagePlus 2 ( due to be launched in March ) and I have to say I 'm very impressed . |
| 2 | Just for a second there , she 'd been uncovering a softer , more human side to the man . |
| 3 | the United fans enjoyed this game … they should have been celebrating a bigger win too … |
| 4 | Maudie had been expecting a better response from her friends , or at the very least a little sympathy , but they seemed not to care . |
| 5 | Back on his farm a few miles from a crash site , Mr Hayton said he 'd been expecting a longer sentence . |
| 6 | He had perhaps been expecting a tougher comment and he hunched his shoulders , muttering suspiciously , ‘ I have n't got no religion . ’ |
| 7 | In later life , Jaq understood that this particular Black Ship had been carrying a higher percentage of individualists hailing from less longstandingly pious worlds , than most such shipments . |
| 8 | If Leeds had been playing a better team they would n't have won but such is the game that you ca n't play the big boys everyday ( thank God ) and Leeds eventually , to the fans relief , and mine too , registered their first win in four games and hopefully gained a confidence booster both for their defence and for our new goalkeeper Beeney who was called on to make only two saves , important as they were . |
| 9 | They had been crossing a scree ; there had been many loose stones , and footing was difficult , but surely at that point they had been traversing a gentler slope , and her employer had actually been standing on a flattish stretch of granite when she had fallen . |
| 10 | She said she 'd been following a higher moral law . |